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The First Descendant is officially here, and it is a fun one. You play as Descendants, superhuman warriors, each with their own skills and abilities, tasked with protecting mankind from the alien Vulgus. The game itself revolves around doing missions to get rewards, progress your characters, and gather materials that you need to unlock new Descendants and more powerful weapons. And you can do all of that in a Party with friends, as the game is designed as a co-op experience in the first place. As with every new game, new players may find themselves a bit confused and overwhelmed with choices and general content, so here are some of the best beginner tips for The First Descendant.
Best Tips for Beginners in The First Descendant
When you start playing The First Descendant, you can be daunted by everything around you and the hundreds of players all running about in Albion. The game does offer a decent tutorial, but there is so much more that you have to keep an eye out for. With all the new gear and mods you constantly get, notifications about you leveling up this or that (“there is Character Level AND Mastery Level??”), one can get pretty confused. But, we’re here to help out a bit so your The First Descendant beginnings can be as smooth as possible.
Take It Slow
This is not a race. The game has so much content and information scattered about that getting familiar with everything would take a while. That’s why you should take things slow. Familiarize yourself with basic controls (the Tutorial is great, but it can only do so much), how your chosen Descendant’s Skills work (don’t forget the Passives), what’s the difference between “hip shooting” and aiming for each weapon, etc. Most tooltips in the game offer a lot of information, but take your time, gradually learn about the game, weapon choices, materials, and everything as you play, and you’ll get the hang of it in no time.
We’ll even go so far as to recommend playing solo for the first couple of missions. Having other players around usually leads to more chaos and running about, so be sure to switch your missions to Private until you get familiar enough with the game.
New Weapons
During a mission, with all the hectic fighting going on, you may not notice all the stuff that you automatically get or pick up during those fights. The game itself may pull you to keep going forward and basically forget the fact that there is an inventory in this game where you can change your loadout. So remember to once in a while check your inventory, especially when you level up your Descendant. You may find a bunch of new weapons that are better than the ones you are currently using (“Why is my Shotgun so weak? Ah, it’s four levels behind…”), and some new Mods and other accessories. Remember that each Firearm uses a certain type of ammo, so consider that when selecting weapons.
Keep an Eye on Your Ammo
There are a couple of different types of ammo in The First Descendant and each weapon uses a certain type. For starters, you’ll most probably be using the standard (White) ammo, Impact (Green) ammo, and High-Power (Purple) ammo. The first thing you should know is that there is no infinite ammo. Yes, you can run out of your regular Assault Rifle ammo if you are not careful. On that note, downed enemies usually drop ammo packs that you can pick up during fights, and you can also find small orange crates that you can break which usually have some ammo in them. Alternatively, the starting location in each area usually has a Resupply machine that you can visit before starting a mission, to keep your ammo full, and you can also find them during Missions.
Weapon and Descendant Modules, Reactors, and External Components
Besides new weapons, you will also pick up Modules during your missions (or get them as a reward), as well as Reactors and External Components. You can find them all in your Inventory screen, and they all offer small but meaningful bonuses to your build. Weapon mods affect the performance of the selected weapon, Reactors affect your Skills, and Descendant Modules and External Components offer general buffs.
Modules (both Weapon and Descendant) have the Equip Recommended Module button. We recommend that you use it for the time being until you get more familiar with different aspects of the game. Reactors generally boost your Skill Power (and your melee attack), but a lot of them can further improve certain Skill types, like Toxic, Dimension, Chill, or Non-Attribute. Lastly, to equip External Components, each of them has to go into a specific slot. While your unused collected Components will all be bundled together, you can only equip one Auxiliary Power, one Sensor, one Memory, and one Processor, and each has to be put into the correct “slot”. A simple “click” will not suffice.
Find Cover
While in a fight, you may find yourself feeling invincible at the beginning (especially if you are playing Ajax). But, as the fights get tougher, you’ll realize that things are not that easy all the time, and see your Shields broken and your Health bar starting to shrink. So we recommend finding some cover during larger fights, to protect you from enemy fire. Additionally, your Shields will start to recover when you’re outside of combat, so getting behind cover for a while should trigger the Shield recovery.
Conserve your MP During Tougher Fights
We’ve all been there. An enemy Commander is about to get close and we’re preparing a nasty Skill combo to take it down. And, as soon as you spring your trap, you realize you don’t have enough MP for the combo, and now you’re in a pickle. Keep an eye on your MP bar (the blue one) and familiarize yourself with your Skills and how much MP each of them takes (especially if you’re playing an MP-heavy character, like Viessa). And remember that killed enemies can drop MP “packs” that you can pick up (looking like glowing blue spheres) so keep an eye out for them if you are running low on MP.
We hope that these tips will help you out when beginning your adventures in The First Descendant and see you in Igris.